Senior Planning Engineer

<br><br> Role: Senior Planning Engineer<br><br> Location: Woking<br><br> Type: Permanent <br><br>  <br> Senior Planning Engineer<br><br> Qualifications: minimum Degree level qualification<br><br> Experience: Minimum 10 years' recent FEED, EPC / EPCm experience in the oil & gas sector in a similar role. Must have recent experience of leading planning delivery on brownfield projects. <br><br>  Job description:<br><ul><li>Reports to the Project Controls Manager.</li><li>Manages and leads all activities related to project planning and accountable for managing the overall Master Control Schedule, collation and reporting of progress against this Control Schedule.</li><li>Setup and manage the project Master Control Schedule and facilitate the operation of the project planning and progress measurement systems.</li><li>Ensures planning and progress measurement procedures for contractors and vendors conform to Project requirements and are effectively applied.</li><li>Ensures that the detailed planning of the various phases of the work is in accordance with the project strategy and milestones to achieve the overall project plan.</li><li>Calculate and report project schedule performance metrics and generate S-Curves and other tables and charts as required.</li><li>Responsibilities typically include:<ul><li>Project controls: reporting, forecasting and cost control.</li><li>Look ahead reports of tasks to be performed in the 3 - 6 weeks</li><li>Identification of Risks in schedules and mitigation actions</li><li>Identification of Opportunities in the schedule.</li></ul></li><li>Responsible for timely issue of project control deliverables and progress reports.</li><li>Provide relevant reports to project management to ensure the Project Manager has all the tools required to make the right decisions driving on time and on budget project execution.</li><li>Interact with the customer to provide update on schedule as well as explain the current situation / challenges / opportunities.</li><li>Implementation of the integrated project planning initiative: the planner will adhere to the approved processes and proactively drive implementation of new initiatives leading to fully integrated planning.</li><li>Provide leadership to planning engineers, schedulers and cost engineers to plan, monitor, and control the execution of the project within the time and budget parameters, optimising resource utilisation.</li><li>Capable of performing duties with no direct supervision and within agreed schedules and budgets.</li><li>Support the Project Controls Manager and Project Management Team in planning and identifying issues that could limit progress or impact project budgets.</li><li>Corporate reporting line is to the Project Controls and Business Director.</li><li>Understands the project deliverables, milestones and required tasks and targets through the project progress measurement system.</li><li>Support project management team in initiating and preparing time and cost related variations and claims.</li><li>Monitor progress against schedules and expedite updating data required from the discipline groups.</li><li>Prepare and maintain client and management progress curves and look ahead reports for the project in line with the required reporting levels and requirements of the contract.</li><li>Evaluate discipline change notices, determine schedule impact of all affected areas.</li><li>Support the materials control group in developing and maintaining a requisition tracking system.</li><li>Ensure timely project reporting to an appropriate level of detail which gives early warning of adverse performance trends.</li><li>Capable of using initiative, knowledge and experience to recognise, highlight and address opportunities and threats as and when they emerge.</li><li>Perform related duties as and when instructed by direct supervisor.</li></ul> <br /><br />To help Leap29 find you that perfect job, we need to store and process your personal information.<br />That means that your details will be entered into Leap29's database and our consultants may contact you from time to time with relevant job opportunities.<br />By applying you're confirming you're happy for us to do that!